I won't sit down And I won't shut up And most of all I will not grow up
Words, words, words! They shut one off from the universe. Three quarters of the time one's never in contact with things, only with the beastly words that stand for them.
You are moody. It’s always ‘Shut up, Kenji. ’ ‘Go to sleep, Kenji. ’ ‘No one wants to see you naked, Kenji. ’ When I know for a fact that there are thousands of people who would love to see me naked—
So go on, get angry. But keep your mouth shut and go do your work.
Everybody shut up. Let us work.
Shut up or I'll kill you.
The Failure of Will theory is equally popular with people who are not depressed. Get out and take your mind off yourself, they say. You're too self-absorbed. This is just about the stupidest thing you can say to a depressed person, and it is said every day to depressed people all over this country. And if it isn't that, it's Shut up and take your Prozac.
My mom is an actress, but she never really pushed me into it, and it was never something I thought I would be doing. She was very happy I decided to, but she certainly doesn't offer me criticism because she knows I'd tell her to shut up! Nobody wants to hear that from their mum!
There is one crucial rule that must be followed in all creative meetings. Never speak first. At least at the start, your job is to shut up.
It suddenly struck me that that tiny pea, pretty and blue, was the Earth. I put up my thumb and shut one eye, and my thumb blotted out the planet Earth. I didn't feel like a giant. I felt very, very small.
So, am I friendly with my daughter and her friends? Yes. Am I their friend? No. Does she shut the door? Yes, and I very much support the shut door.
That's the secret: be interesting. If you can't be interesting, shut up. There's nothing wrong with silence.
Well, you know, it's been in the back of my mind. I just cannot get it out of it. I'm miserable chasing money. I'm 30 years old going through a mid-life crisis!" I just couldn't shut (it) off.
As for everyone else, unless you have been shot at by the Taliban, shut your mouth, war is hell.
I find I have to give myself a day when I just shut myself off and do nothing but read.
I counsel thee, shut not thy heart, nor thy library.
You learned the two greatest thing in life, never rat on your friends, and always keep your mouth shut.
Even fairly good students, when they have obtained the solution of the problem and written down neatly the argument, shut their books and look for something else. Doing so, they miss an important and instructive phase of the work. . . . A good teacher should understand and impress on his students the view that no problem whatever is completely exhausted.
Each and every one of us will be confronted by a major challenge in our lives. . . We can choose to shut down, retreat into our safety zone and not participate in life, or we can decide to learn from the experience and make a difference to the lives of those around us.
Rogerson," I asked him sweetly as we sat watching a video in the pool house, "where would I find the pelagic zone?" "In the open sea," he said. "Now shut up and eat your Junior Mints.